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Do you know if these ads are injected or if the authors are doing this? This is really gross.

To be honest the whole article seems like backlink spam. If you look with your eyes at the rendered article, you'll see a link to the supplement at the top, some links to a book about carpenters when it says "carpenter", and a extended blurb about the supplement at the bottom. (the original was on a personal site: https://web.archive.org/web/20230325234744/http://www.jasonb...)

Oh, wow, the original is from 2004, with an update in 2013. This Substack article is backdated to the "Update" date in 2013, and it's the only article on the substack at all.

I have a strong suspicion that Jason Bock did not create this substack, and someone is using his name and the content he posted years ago to push sketchy products.

May we change the HN link to the source article ?

Briefly looking at a few other substack sites, I don't see anything like this, so I assume that the author added it.

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